Northern California Cancer Center (NCCC): managed by various investigators at the NCCC; contact is Dr. Dee West (
). Among its many repositories, the NCCC is one of six centers comprising the Breast Cancer Family Registry, which has banked clinically-annotated tumor blocks as well as genomic DNA from probands and family members. Specimens are available to Stanford investigators through approval of submitted requests, evaluated by an advisory committee for scientific merit and appropriate use of resources.

Locating Banked Biospecimens

The STRIDE Anonymous Biospecimen Locator allows Stanford researchers to search the STRIDE Virtual Biospecimen Bank for suitable samples without having to know, or expose, any protected patient-specific information. Having determined that suitable specimens exist in one of the constituent biospecimens banks, the researcher can generate a Web-based request form to obtain additional information from the appropriate bank operator(s).

The first biospecimen bank searchable using this tool is the Stanford Cancer Center Pathology Core Tissue Bank, directed by Jonathan Pollack MD, PhD. Additional biospecimen banks are being added to STRIDE for searching by the system.